As 6 Commissioners write to Senate, accuse Commission Chairman Isah of corruption
Allege he shut down investigation into N’s loot 109 billion against the ex-AGF, Ahmed Idris
*Say that the boss of the CCB blocks the investigations into the petitions against the assets of the civil servants
*The Senate orders him to appear before his C’ttee inevitably on Thursday, October 10, 6
By Olugbenga Salami
The crisis has hit the Code Office of conduct, CCB, as the six federal commissioners heading the anti-corruption agency have opened a Pandora’s box into the alleged corrupt practices of their chairman, Professor Mohammed Isah, through a petition submitted to this effect to the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions.
This was even as they alleged that the The Booty of a Billion N 109 linked to the former Accountant General of the Federation, AGF, Ahmed Idris, was first reported to the CCB through petitions, but Isah prevented any action against them.
In the petition co-signed by the Commissioners led by Dr. Emmanuel Attah, they accused the beleaguered CCB President of having, over the past four years, blocked required investigations into motions against public officials with assets of millions and billions of naira, not shown in their asset declaration forms.
Other Commissioners include Prof. Folorunsho Ogundare, Elder Ubolo Okpanachi, Ken Madaki Alkali, Murtala Kankia and Sa’ad Abubakar.
The Senate panel, chaired by Senator Ayo Akinyelure (PDP Ondo Central), at the end of the week, therefore summoned the president of the CCB, who was absent last Friday when five of the six commissioners were present , to appear without fail in his defense on Thursday, October 6.
Senator Akinyelure said: “The petition before this committee on the allegations against the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Office, CCB, at the limit of corrupt practices, is disturbing and must be here to defend himself.
” The seriousness of the problem lies in the fact that the petitioners are even the six federal commissioners appointed to work with him in the fight against corruption.
“The commissioners are there but the president who is in the eye of the storm is not there. We have gone through all the issues raised in the petition jointly signed by the Commissioners and they are very worrying if ultimately proven.
“Therefore, for a fair hearing, we re-invite the Chairman to appear before this committee on Thursday, October 6, 2022 without fail before 2:00 p.m. 00 invites response(s) required from him on all the allegations made against him in the petition.”
Speaking to reporters after the adjournment, one of the commissioners , Hon. Ehiozuwa Agbonayinma, along with others, said they asked the President to save the CCB from the self-inflicted incapacitation that the President had inflicted on it.
According to he, all the Commissioners and the President, were appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari to help in the war against corruption within the civil service itself at all levels.
“The President , based on his conduct, is in no way prepared to wage war but to sabotage it by sitting on a series of petitions written against corrupt public officials whose assets exceed by far what was declared in the asset declaration forms. Federation, Ahmed Idris, was first reported to the CCB through petitions, but the president prevented him from taking action. the frustration thrown there at the CCB by no less than the president.
“We have written a petition against him as stated by the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions here today and want him to meet us face to face before the members of the committee for the defense he wants to make or the war against it, must be shown the exit from public office, especially those who are charged with responsibilities of curbing corrupt practices in the country like the CCB .”
